A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger

by Michael Friedman

Book Overview

Since the 1930s, philosophy has been divided into two camps: the analytic tradition which prevails in the Anglophone world and the continental tradition which holds sway over the European continent. A Parting of the Ways looks at the origins of this split through the lens of one defining episode: the disputation in Davos, Switerzland, in 1929, between the two most eminent German philosophers, Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger. This watershed debate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812694252
• ISBN13: 9780812694253
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"